Francisco Stromp

Francisco Stromp was born on 21 May 1892 in Largo do Intendente in Lisbon, and was the first great symbol of Sporting. His father, Francisco dos Reis Stromp, was a medical doctor at an hospital in Lisbon. His mother was Elisa Lima de Oliveira Roxo. At the age of three, Francisco fell ill and his father's friends and family doctors advised his family to leave Lisbon because the boy needed free air. They moved to Lumiar, which was out of town at the time. It was there that he met José Alvalade with whom he founded Sporting Clube de Portugal in 1906, being one of the dissidents of the Campo Grande Football Club. In 1908, Francisco Stromp was 16 years old when he made his debut with Sporting Clube de Portugal. Throughout his career he has played more than one hundred games in the honor category, and captained the team for several years, during which he was four times Lisbon Champion and Portuguese Champion in the 1922–23 season, in this case also as coach, after Augusto Sabbo resignation and after the Technical Council had allowed the captains of the 1ª and 2ª categories to direct the training sessions of the teams, like that of Sporting. Before, at a time when the figure of the coach did not yet exist, it was the captain who guided the team and made the necessary decisions on the field. It can be said that Francisco Stromp was the first champion manager in Sporting, being responsible for the first Lisbon Championship conquered in the 1914–15 season. Within the field he…

Player

Sporting CP

Campeonato de Portugal: 1922–23 Lisbon Championship: 1914–15, 1918–19, 1921–22, 1922–23

Manager

Sporting CP

Lisbon Championship: 8